#barebones and done

[notasouleater]

@justheretolurk24 Okay So

Everyone gets cursed yadah yadah, my only switch up is anyone involved that is not "the beast" is the invisible variant. "The beast" still looks spooky but is now the one slowly turning inanimate. Have fun being a statue. The only way to reverse the curse is to "Love and be loved in return"

After a certain amount of desperation is reached, someone sarcastically suggests they put on a talent show to save the day. Hold on, says the beast. Getting a bunch of people to come here means A Lot of opportunities to love, and if we made it like a proper variety show then we get return guests for rehearsals. We don't even have to talk to people we can use flyers

No one else is happy about this but it's the first time the beast has shown passion in years and like. Probably nothing will even come of it. Fine

Several people come of it

Everyone is doing their best to make this work. 90% of their marketing was just dropping flyers into the wind and hoping it would find someone. They were not prepared for a whole 8 people all of whom are automatically accepted for whatever it is they signed up for

The next meet-up has significantly more people, dragged in by their friends who 'Told You the flyers weren't a scam'

So the show builds. The beast is having the absolute time of their life planning everything. All the invisible folks are getting increasingly into it, for some if only because New People that are bringing Non Invisible Clothes. Someone has to talk the beast into getting an actual stage manager bc they're so into it they took on too many roles and are forgetting to sleep

And folks start losing the curse. People are meeting new people for the first time in a long time, and forging new connections, partners, friends. They love and love in return, and slowly people are being seen again

Many folks want to travel, now that they can, but are staying long enough for the show. They want to see all that work come together. They want to see it happen

The beast is getting stiffer. Sometimes when they move they think they see cracks forming, and they wear longer and longer sleeves, difficult with the way their joints move now. Someone confronts them on it, maybe, and they say they just need to make it through the show. They aren't going to break the curse. They care about many of the people here, but that's not love to them. They think in terms of close folks and people they don't want to lose, is it a crime they use different words?

They don't want anyone to know they won't last long after. They don't want this to be a swan song. They want people to tell them what they think could go better next time. They want people to make a next time.

Everything grows and build and the main night is approaching and one by one the curse slowly lifts until opening night comes and the entire audience is fully visible. The beast comes up and gives a speech about how proud everyone should be (many of them first time theatre makers!), because shows aren't just words on paper, or a story on a stage. Shows are everything they did to get to this point. They're made of people. So please watch, and know what you're really seeing is all those around you that put effort into making it.

Then the mob bursts through the door and everything goes to shit lol

Chaos and screaming and a lot of general accusations at this horrific demon brainwashing everyone. The beast does not leave the stage. They command attention, in the way you can only do in a story. A show.

They ask the mob who they think they're hurting. Everyone here came together to make something, and it's the first time in a long time they and everyone around them have gotten to do that. If the mob wants them dead that's fine. They'd be dead soon anyways. But they love working with these people and they love this show, and they're fighting for that.

More chaos. The general crowd is not, in fact, very happy to hear their friend is Apparently Dying.

It ends with the collected assemblage fighting back. They're fighting to save the show. But they're also also defending someone they love. Some as a friend, of course, but for many others as someone that made this world for them. As someone that keeps fighting for it, someone they want to keep working with. Words on paper, a vision on a stage can't love in return. But, as the beast said, shows are made of more than that.

And this is when the curse fully, finally lifts

anyone want to hear my extremely 'we get it op, you're a theatre kid' beauty and the beast concept

[speckled-biscut]

DAY ONE- KNIGHT!

[chaosspear]

Heeeey I finally opened up commissions!

I'm trying to start raising money with my art this year, so I can start moving away from my very physically intensive job that has been causing me a lot of pain due to my disability, so every dollar counts! If you would like to help a physically disabled person this disability pride month, maybe buy me a coffee, or buy a small commission so I can draw you a little guy too :]

[fumifooms]

Coud you do analys about chilchuck's misogyny? Love your posts

Not something I expected to have a readymade post for hah but I’ve already made a post on the topic here, if you’ve read it already but aren’t sated sorry to disappoint but I think I’ve exhausted my thoughts on the matter

He’s soooo. To quote a friend I need to chew on him like a polly pocket dress

[chialattea]

My Dragon Age OC!! She is very Normal. Completely Average and Boring. She too played that game you just mentioned when she was a kid, because she was a Normal child. Yes, thank you for the food, which as everyone knows is needed to nourish human bodies. Which she has. And it’s hers. Mmmm, leek soup… yummy…

[lawlietscaramels]

hi I just freaked myself out and impressed myself with this barebones horror ish short about A and B but I don't want to post it because it's about two characters I don't know much about and I'm pretty sure I got stuff wrong so...

more in the tags as always you guys should read my tags

[ace-of-clubs-and-diamonds]

So uh. I have an Instagram for my art now. If that would interest anyone.

[gentlethorns]

holy fuck. i'm on my last scene

[ozcarr]

I know I’m not your favorite, but I like when you say it

[c-c-top]

well it took a bit longer than anticipated but i finally finished my first attempt at binding my own graphic novels! it definitely didnt turn out perfect, some minor nitpicky details make it obvious that this was my first attempt at the process, but overall im very pleased with how it came out! i chose to bind the story Return to Angel Island because it seems to set up plenty of important details for Ian Flynn's run, not to mention that I had never gotten around to this story before, which is truly a shame since it introduces one of my favorite characters in the Archie comics, Dr. Finitevus. Hopefully my next project will have an improved process, I plan to bind issues 195-198 so that I can read thru issues 160-200 all in one go!

[mochapanda]

just goes to show no one has ever spoken enough about the pale and i must be the one to do it

[astellarrion]

Pathologic Subnautica AU. ft. Natural Selection 2 because it interacting with humans is canon from what I remember

[mydictionary-yume]

Welcome!

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Ultimate guide to Lusaku!

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[redhotarsenic]

Oh! I passed my test! Barely!

[hella1975]

tbf i really deserved to lose that poll im stupid af

[cea-tide]

I wanted to order my tagging system again but now I am writing code for visualising a graph of tags and their connections